2018-08-07 at 11:24 PM UTC
Disregard whether or not it's obsolete, there are people out there who still buy and listen to cassettes (independent musicians)
They have a unique appeal and feel.
I was thinking for full length releases I'll do CD-R and for cassette I would go for a sort of unique approach, one side could be a few songs then the other would be edits/remixes/reinterpretations or a concept release.
Does anybody here collect cassettes?
2018-08-07 at 11:29 PM UTC
also FUCK bandcamp NIGGERS putting out cassettes .. they're always sold out fuck
2018-08-07 at 11:30 PM UTC
Sure. I record things to cassette sometimes just because there's certain sounds that seem like the musicians really wanted to be recording 30 years ago.
I would buy a cassette or vinyl release if I was into the band enough.
2018-08-07 at 11:51 PM UTC
I wish I still had the tapes I recorded of the radio from back when I was really into doing that in the early 00s
It would be so neat to hear what the alt-rock station here was like back then, to hear the types of songs I was into.
There is so much cool shit I collected/made as a kid and early teen and sadly I no longer have any of it.
The only thing I have left was a really cringey tape of me prank phone calling people, but I recorded over that last year.
I can't wait to die and reincarnate though, there is so much stuff I plan on doing, like I'm going to make wayyy more tapes, I'll never trade in my games, I'll back up photos I see on the old net and save them to cd-rs and floppies, I'll save all the cassette tapes I make and of course I'll save all the home movies I made to dvd-rs or vhs instead of recording over them.
I even had a gameplay footage of me playing GTA 3 to vhs, but back then (probably an anti-piracy measure) if you hooked a PS2 up to a vhs player the picture quality would be really awful and dark.
But maaan, those were some good times.
With the limitlessness of things today with everything being digital, nothing feels special anymore.
2018-08-07 at 11:55 PM UTC
like .. if I could have had the ability to record gameplay footage to vhs without the weird quality issue I probably would have watched those tapes over and over and over again
today?
Oh I have dozens of elgato clips spanning hours each?
Meh
I never watch them and when I'm recording that way it's just for archival, I'm not doing anything like a lets play or focusing on doing interesting things for the recording
Kids these days have thousands of clips on their youtube channel, big whoop boring shit.
If they had five tapes of them playing a game back in the 90s and 00s they would have cherished them like nothing else
